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Author Topic: Used to be a dump -- now it's a showplace Charles Everett Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: New Jersey Registered: May 2001 posted 08-27-2001 11:17 AM                     Two years ago I saw Run Lola Run at the Garden Theatre in Princeton NJ. It hadn't come to my area yet and I figured it was the only chance I could see it. The theater was a dump -- oversize auditoriums, old seats, scratchy mono sound. After that I thought, Why would anyone go to see a movie there? Last Xmas the Garden was closed for refurbishing. It reopened this summer and I paid a visit this weekend to see Ghost World. This used to be a dump . . . now it's a showplace! New lobby (though lit a bit too brightly for my eyes). Stadium seating and Dolby Digital in both halls The seating is stadium rear/sloped in front like the UA Union Square. Guardrails in the middle of each aisle, too, to help older people get around. Nice choice of non-sync music: "The Phantom of the Opera" followed by early Beatles. Good to see a theater playing something that isn't MovieTunes. Christie package in the booth. I could ID it from the porthole. Here's to a long life for the Garden Theatre.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 08-27-2001 11:19 AM                        Charles is the theatre operated by an independant or a chain?  |  IP: Logged Charles Everett Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: New Jersey Registered: May 2001 posted 08-27-2001 11:22 AM                     It's a 2-screen independent. Their main competition is a 6-screen arthouse 4 miles north and a 9-screen UA on Route 1.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 08-27-2001 11:59 AM                        There was a seven plex in Kendall Park just North of Princton That had been put in where there was once an old A&P. Is that theatre gone now? It was owned by one of the former owners of the Golden Theatre Circuit in NYC. Is this theatre still in existence?  |  IP: Logged Charles Everett Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: New Jersey Registered: May 2001 posted 08-27-2001 05:55 PM                     The Kendall Park theater was about halfway between Princeton and New Brunswick on Route 27. It closed in September '99 -- 6 months after Regal opened a nearby megaplex on Route 1.  |  IP: Logged

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